A Study of PEGASYS (Pegylated-interferon Alfa-2a) With or Without Ribavirin in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Who Have Participated in Previous Roche or Roche Partner Protocols

Hepatitis C, Chronic Clinical Trial

Official title:

An Open-label, Multicenter Protocol Providing Pegylated-interferon Alfa-2a (PEGASYS®) as Monotherapy or in Combination With Ribavirin (COPEGUS®) for Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Who Have Participated in Previous Roche or Roche Partner Protocols

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00800735
• Other study ID #: NV21928
• Secondary ID: 2008-002022-10
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• First received: October 23, 2008
• Last updated: September 30, 2013
• Start date: April 2009
• Est. completion date: March 2012

Study information

• Verified date: September 2013
• Source: Hoffmann-La Roche
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Food and Drug Administration
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This single arm study will provide treatment or re-treatment with PEGASYS as monotherapy or in combination with ribavirin (Copegus), to patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) who have participated in a previous Roche or Roche partner protocol where access to treatment or re-treatment was promised or deemed appropriate following completion of the original protocol ('donor' protocol). Patients who qualify for treatment or re-treatment will begin PEGASYS monotherapy, at a maximum dose of 180 µg weekly, or combination therapy with Copegus, 800-1200 mg daily, as continuation of treatment after the wash-out period defined in their donor protocol. PEGASYS treatment is not to exceed the approved treatment duration of 48 weeks in genotype G1 with a treatment-free follow up period of 24 weeks.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: March 2012
• Est. primary completion date: March 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients, = 18 years of age.

• Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients with compensated liver disease (Child-Pugh A) who have participated in a donor protocol where access to treatment or re-treatment with PEGASYS monotherapy or in combination with Copegus was promised or deemed appropriate after completion of the donor protocol.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Evidence of decompensated liver disease (Child B or C cirrhosis).

Study Design

Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hepatitis
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis C, Chronic
• Hepatitis, Chronic

Intervention

Drug:
• Pegylated-interferon alfa-2a
Pegylated-interferon alfa-2a was administered subcutaneously once weekly.
• Ribavirin
Participants received ribavirin with food, as the bioavailability of ribavirin is increased when taken with food. Ribavirin was administered as split doses, that is, 2 doses were given 12 hours apart, 1 in the morning and 1 in the evening. Participants received either 1000 or 1200 mg ribavirin per day according to body weight: 400 mg (2 tablets) in the morning and 600 mg (3 tablets) in the evening for participants weighing < 75 kg or 600 mg (3 tablets) in the morning and 600 mg (3 tablets) in the evening for participants weighing = 75 kg.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hoffmann-La Roche

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Austria,  Canada,  France,  Germany,  Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Percentage of Participants Who Experienced at Least 1 Adverse Event.	An adverse event is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient administered a pharmaceutical product and which does not necessarily have to have a causal relationship with the treatment. An adverse event can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding, for example), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a pharmaceutical product, whether or not considered related to the pharmaceutical product. Preexisting conditions which worsen during a study are also considered as adverse events.	Baseline through 24 weeks after the end of treatment (up to 72 weeks)	Yes